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Original 1611 King James Bible - 1769 Edition
 
 
 
Select List of Significant Differences
Between the Original 1611 KJV & the Common 1769 Edition
 
- Genesis 19:21  - Add "also" reading "thing also," instead of "thing,".
-   [Strong's #: 1571 "also"]
 
  
- Exodus 14:10  - Omit "lift vp their eyes, and beholde, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel" before "cried out".
 
[note: duplicated lines of text] 
- Exodus 21:32  - Add "of silver" reading "shekels of silver," instead of "shekels,".
-  [Strong's #: 3701 "shekels"]
 
  
- Exodus 35:11  - Add "his boards," before "his barres,".
-  [Strong's #: 853 + Strong's #: 7175 "boards"]
 
  
- Leviticus 20:11  - Add "surely" reading "shall surely be put" instead of "shalbe put".
-  [Strong's #: 4191 "surely"]
 
  
- Leviticus 26:40  - Add "their iniquitie, and" after "confesse".
-  [Strong's #: 5771 "iniquitie"]
 
  
- Numbers 7:31  - Add "of the weight" after "charger".
-  [Strong's #: 4948 "weight"]
 
  
- Numbers 7:55  - Add "of the weight" after "charger".
-  [Strong's #: 4948 "weight"]
 
  
- Numbers 8:22  - Omit "and" after "and".
 
- Deuteronomy 5:29  - Add "all" after "keepe".
 
- Deuteronomy 26:1  - Add "thy God" after "LORD".
 
- Joshua 13:29  - Add "the children of" before the second "Manasseh".
-  [Strong's #: 1121 "children"]
 
  
- Joshua 19:27  - Omit "of" after "of".
 
- 1 Samuel 12:7  - Add "to" before "your fathers.".
 
- 1 Samuel 18:27  - Add "and went," after "arose".
-  [Strong's #: 3212 (or Strong's #: 1980) "went"]
 
  
- 1 Kings 9:11  - Add "king" before "Solomon".
-  [Strong's #: 4428 "king"]
 
  
- 2 Kings 11:10  - Add "of the LORD" reading "Temple of the LORD." instead of "Temple.".
-  [Strong's #: 3068 "LORD"]
 
  
- 2 Kings 20:13  - Add "all" after "shewed them".
 
- 1 Chronicles 7:5  - Add "valiant" before "men".
-  [Strong's #: 1368 "valiant men"]
 
  
- 1 Chronicles 11:1  - Render "vnHebron," as "vnto Hebron,".
 
[note: similar to the less significant "sobide" in 1 Corinthians 7:40] 
- 2 Chronicles 8:16 - Replace "God" with "the LORD".
-  [Strong's #: 3068 "LORD"]
 
  
- 2 Chronicles 12:2  - Add "king" before "Rehoboam,".
-  [Strong's #: 4428 "king"]
 
  
- 2 Chronicles 28:11 - Replace "God" with "the LORD".
-  [Strong's #: 3068 "LORD"]
 
  
- Ezra 3:5  - Omit "offred," before "offered".
 
[note: may be an intended rendering] 
- Ezra 4:11  - Add "the men" after "seruants".
 
- Esther 1:8  - Add "so" before "the king".
 
- Job 4:6 - Render "the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?" as "thy hope, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?".
 
- Psalms 44:1  - Add "Maschil" reading "Korah, Maschil." instead of "Korah.".
-  [Strong's #: 4905 "Maschil"]
 
  
- Psalms 81:12  - Omit "in" after "in".
 
- Proverbs 18:10  - Omit "a" after "a".
 
- Proverbs 30:19  - Omit "the" after "the".
 
- Ecclesiastes 8:17  - Add "yet he shall not find [it];" after "out,".
-  [Strong's #: 4672 "find"]
 
  
- Isaiah 44:22  - Omit "a" after "a".
 
- Isaiah 49:13 - Replace "God" with "the LORD".
-  [Strong's #: 3068 "LORD"]
 
  
- Jeremiah 15:10  - Omit "that" after "that".
 
- Jeremiah 21:7  - Omit "and" after "and".
 
- Jeremiah 31:18  - Add "for" after "turned;".
 
- Jeremiah 38:16  - Add "Zedekiah" before "the king".
-  [Strong's #: 6667 "Zedekiah"]
 
  
- Jeremiah 42:16  - Add "there" before "in Egypt,".
-  [Strong's #: 8033 "there"]
 
  
- Jeremiah 50:29  - Add "do" reading "done, do" instead of "done".
 
- Ezekiel 3:11  - Add "the children of" before "thy people,".
-  [Strong's #: 1121 "children"]
 
  
- Ezekiel 12:19  - Add "all" before "them".
 
- Ezekiel 23:23  - Omit "the" after "the".
 
- Ezekiel 24:7  - Add "not" after "powred it".
 
- Ezekiel 34:31  - Add "the flocke" reading "my flocke, the flocke" instead of "my flocke".
-  [Strong's #: 6629 "flocke"]
 
  
- Daniel 3:15  - Add "burning" before "fierie".
-  [Strong's #: 3345 "burning"]
 
  
- Habakkuk 2:3  - Omit "the" after "the".
 
- Matthew 4:25  - Omit "great" after "great".
 
- Matthew 6:3  - Add "hand" after "right".
-  [Strong's #: 1188 "hand"]
 
  
- Matthew 8:17  - Omit "which" after "which".
 
- Matthew 8:25  - Add "him" reading "awoke him," instead of "awoke,".
 
- Matthew 12:23  - Add "not" before "this".
 
- Matthew 16:16  - Add "the" reading "the Christ," instead of "Christ".
 
- Matthew 16:19  - Add "and" after "heauen:".
 
- Matthew 16:25  - Omit "his" after "his".
 
- Matthew 27:52  - Add "the" before "Saints".
 
- Mark 2:4  - Add "the" before "preasse,".
 
- Mark 7:15  - Omit "of" after "of".
 
- Luke 8:8  - Add "had" before "saide".
 
- Luke 10:25 & Luke 10:26 - Move "He said vnto him," to the beginning of verse 26 (instead of the end of verse 25).
 
- Luke 15:2  - Omit "murmured," after "murmured,".
 
- Luke 17:34  - Add "and" after "taken,".
 
- John 5:18  - Transpose "not onely" and "because hee" reading "because hee not onely".
 
[note: may be an intended rendering] 
- John 7:16  - Add "and said," after "them,".
-  [Strong's #: 2036 "said"]
 
  
- John 15:4  - Add "I" after "and".
 
- John 16:25  - Add "but" after "prouerbs:".
 
- John 19:24  - Transpose "not" and "vs" reading "vs not".
 
[note: may be an intended rendering] 
- Acts 2:22  - Add "and" after "miracles,".
 
- Acts 18:5  - Add "the" before "spirit,".
 
- Acts 19:19  - Transpose "also" and "of them" reading "of them also".
 
[note: may be an intended rendering] 
- Acts 24:14  - Add "in" before "the Prophets,".
 
- Acts 27:18  - Add "we" before "being".
 
- Romans 3:24  - Transpose "Iesus" and "Christ:" reading "Christ Iesus:".
 
- Romans 6:12  - Transpose "reigne" and "therefore" reading "therefore reigne".
 
- Romans 7:13  - Transpose "that" and "then" reading "then that".
 
- Romans 14:10  - Add "for" after "brother?"
 
- Romans 16:25  - Omit "the" after "the".
 
- 1 Corinthians 10:28  - Add "for" reading "sake: for the" instead of "sake. The".
 
- 1 Corinthians 14:15  - Add "the" before "vnderstanding".
-  [Strong's #: 3588 "the"]
 
[note: an additional less significant (and common type) difference appears in this verse - Add "I" between "and" and "wil".] 
  
- 1 Corinthians 15:41  - Add "and" and "glory" reading "sunne, and another glory" instead of "sunne, another".
-  [Strong's #: 1391 "glory"]
 
  
- 1 Corinthians 15:48  - Add "also" after the first "they".
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "also"]
 
  
- 2 Corinthians 8:21  - Add "also" after "but".
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "also"]
 
  
- 2 Corinthians 9:5  - Add "and" and "as" reading "bountie, and not as" instead of "bountie, not".
 
- 2 Corinthians 9:6  - Add "also" and "also" after the first "reape" and the second "reape".
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "also"]
  
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "also"]
 
  
- 2 Corinthians 11:32  - Add "of the Damascenes" after "citie".
-  [Strong's #: 1153 "Damascenes"]
 
  
- Ephesians 6:24  - Add "Amen." after "sinceritie."
 
- Ephesians 6:24  - Transpose "Written from Rome" and "vnto the Ephesians" reading "To the Ephesians written from Rome," instead of "Written from Rome vnto the Ephesians".
 
[note: "vnto" becomes "To"] 
- Philippians 4:23  - Omit "It was". Move "written" reading "To the Philippians written" instead of "It was written to the Philippians".
 
- Colossians 4:18  - Omit "the" before "Colossians,".
 
[note: may be an intended rendering, but there is no strong's number.  In the previous Philippians ending-passage "the" is italicized in the 1769 Edition.] 
- 1 Timothy 1:4  - Add "godly" before "edifying".
-  [Strong's #: 2316 "godly"]
 
  
- 2 Timothy 1:7  - Add "and" after "power,".
 
- 2 Timothy 4:8  - Add "all" before "them".
 
- Hebrews 8:8  - Add "with" before "the house of Iudah.".
-  [Strong's #: 1909 "with"]
 
  
- Hebrews 11:23  - Add "were" before "not".
-  [Strong's #: 5399 + Strong's #: 0 "were"]
 
[note: may be an intended rendering] 
  
- James 5:2  - Add "are" before "motheaten:".
 
- 1 Peter 2:1  - Add "all" before "euill".
 
- 1 Peter 2:6  - Add "also" after "Wherefore".
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "also"]
 
  
- 1 John 2:16  - Add "and" after "flesh,".
 
- 1 John 5:12  - Add "of God" reading "Sonne of God," instead of "Sonne,".
-  [Strong's #: 2316 "God"]
 
[note: the retained comma follows the 1611 Edition] 
  
- Jude 1:25  - Add "both" after "power,".
-  [Strong's #: 2532 "both"]
 
  
- Revelation 1:4  - Add "which are" after "Churches".
-  [Strong's #: 3588 "which are"]
 
  
- Revelation 1:11  - Add "vnto" before "Philadelphia,".
-  [Strong's #: 1519 "vnto"]
 
  
- Revelation 5:13  - Add "and" and "and" reading "Blessing, and honour, and" instead of "Blessing, honour,".
  
 
Words Given Special Emphasis in the 1611 Edition
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